The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 52

When the brother arrived at home to fetch his sister, her stepmother and step-sister would go too.

Who acts: brother, stepmother · What happens: arrive, fetch, go · To what, where: home, sister

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrived	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmother	nmod:poss
13	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sister	cc
15	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sister	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 step	punct
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stepmother	conj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arrive	past	the brother		home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the brother not said here	King's sister		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	go	would	home's stepmother and step sister			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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